We are moving quickly to complete our 3 support.
Microsoft is not only providing us with test suites for
Moonlight but also assisting us in making sure that flagship
Silvelright applications work with Moonlight.

When it comes to prioritization of Silverlight 3 features,
we are going to focus on getting the major applications that
users want to use first. Sunday Night Football,
the Winter
Olympics and Bing's
Photosynth support.

Smooth
streaming works really well. Visit the site and test
the immediate seek, and play with the bandwidth limiter to see
how Silverlight/Moonlight can adapt the video quality based
ont he bandwidth available:

Moonlight 2

Moonlight 2 is the result of love and passion to bring
the Silverlight runtime to Linux.

Moonlight is built on top
of Mono
2.6
runtime, Cairo
and Gtk+ and today supports
Firefox on Linux. We are hard at work to support Google
Chrome on Linux as well.

Updated Patent Covenant

We worked with Microsoft to make sure that Moonlight was
available to everyone on Linux and BSD.

Culturally, we started on two opposite ends of the software
licensing spectrum. The covenant that was issued for
Moonlight 1 and 2 covered every user that used Moonlight, but
only as long as the user obtained Moonlight from Novell. This
is a model similar to how Flash is distributed: there is a
well-known location where you get your plugin.

The open source world does not work that way though. In
the open source world, the idea is to release source code and
have distributions play the role of editors and curators and
distribute their own versions of the software.

Microsoft's intention was to expand the reach of
Silverlight, but the original covenant was not a good cultural
fit. We worked with the team at Microsoft (Brian Goldfarb and
Bob Muglia's teams) to make sure that the covenant would cover
the other Linux distributions.

The new patent covenant ensures that other third party
distributions can distribute Moonlight without their users
fearing of getting sued over patent infringement by Microsoft.

There is one important difference between the version of
Moonlight that will be available from Novell and the version
that you will get from your distribution: the version obtained
from Novell will have access to licensed media codecs.

Third party distributions of Moonlight will be able to play
unencumbered media using Vorbis, Theora and Ogg inside
Moonlight (and Silverlight), but for playing back other
formats, they will have a few options:

Moonlight 3 and Moonlight 4 Collaboration Agreement

If our experience with the positive feedback that we have
gotten from MonoDevelop is of any indication Silverlight 4
will enable a whole new class of cross-platform .NET
application development to take place. Like nothing we have
seen before.

We are thrilled to be working with Microsoft to make sure
that we can improve, fix and fine tune Moonlight to meet those
requirements and to do so in a purely open source fashion.